Business Development - International Market (FRESHERS)

Job Description – Admission Officer

About Aakash

Aakash Educational Services Limited (AESL) is a pioneer in India’s test preparation industry, with over 35 years of excellence in preparing students for competitive examinations such as NEET, JEE (Main & Advanced), school/board exams, and national-level scholarship programs including NTSE and Olympiads.

With 315+ branches across India, 6,000+ expert faculty, fully digitized classrooms, and a robust hybrid learning model, Aakash offers a student-centric learning environment focused on delivering consistent results. In 2023 alone, 122,000+ Aakash students qualified in NEET & JEE.

Aakash is proud to be recognized as a Great Place to Work for three consecutive years, reflecting our commitment to employee growth, collaboration, and a positive work culture.

Role Purpose

The Admission Officer is responsible for driving student enrolments through lead generation, counselling, and conversion by executing effective ATL & BTL marketing activities and delivering a superior customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Generate admissions through Above The Line (ATL) and Below The Line (BTL) marketing activities such as school seminars, open seminars, and residential outreach within the assigned territory
• Conduct school visits to build relationships with principals, coordinators, and school management for business development
• Counsel students and parents through centre visits and home visits, ensuring a positive experience and successful admission closure
• Identify and leverage business opportunities by networking with local tuition teachers and academic influencers
• Achieve assigned admission targets while adhering to internal processes, systems, and compliance guidelines

Required Skills & Competencies

• Strong customer handling skills with a calm, empathetic, and patient approach
• Effective sales, persuasion, and negotiation skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and networking abilities
• Working knowledge of MS Office, email communication, and CRM/sales software
• Fluency in English and the regional language
• Willingness to travel extensively and confidence in public speaking

Desired Attitude

• High customer orientation
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Result-oriented mindset
• Emotional intelligence and team collaboration skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (mandatory)
• Preferred: B.Tech / MBA / Master’s in Psychology, Education, or related disciplines

Experience

• Prior experience in education counselling or career counselling preferred
• Experience in B2C sales across any industry will be an added advantage

Key Stakeholder Interactions

External:

• Students, Parents, Schools
• Partners and vendors for ATL & BTL activities

Internal:

• Branch academic and non-academic teams
• Regional Student Support Centre
• Regional Sales and Operations teams

Join us as an Unlisted Stock Broker and embark on a rewarding career! The unlisted stock market, a burgeoning sector, offers vast opportunities beyond traditional exchanges, with trading volumes in India reportedly reaching around INR 25 billion monthly by 2024—a sixfold surge from previous years. Fueled by pre-IPO investments, private equity, and off-market deals, this market’s scope is expanding rapidly, presenting a lucrative field for ambitious professionals. We are forming a lean, high-performance team of unlisted stock brokers and invites young, driven individuals eager to succeed.

What You’ll Get:

20 days of intensive, hands-on sales training to hone your expertise, full support to ace the NISM certification, and real-world exposure with live clients and authentic deals.

What You’ll Do After Training:

Onboard 10 clients with a minimum investment of INR 10L each,

Make 100+ calls daily,

Meet clear performance milestones, pass the exam, and become a certified broker.

This role is your launchpad if you’re ambitious, disciplined, and hungry to prove yourself.

With limited seats available, screening starts this week—apply now to seize this opportunity in the thriving unlisted stock market!

Key Responsibilities:

• Make outbound calls and handle inbound inquiries to counsel students and parents about our courses and programs.
• Understand student requirements, preferences, and academic background to suggest suitable courses.
• Follow up on leads and inquiries through calls, emails, and messages.
• Convert leads into walk-ins, and walk-ins into successful admissions.
• Meet and exceed weekly/monthly admission targets and KPIs.
• Coordinate with the academic and operations team to ensure smooth onboarding of students.
• Stay updated with course offerings, admission criteria, deadlines, and industry trends.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline (preferred: Education, Business, or Communication).
• Prior experience in telesales, inside sales, or academic counselling is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and persuasive abilities.
• Proficiency in using MS Office tools.
• Goal-oriented mindset with the ability to work under pressure.

Make outbound sales calls to calling list provided

Report to manager on a bi-weekly basis

Mark the status of each call using provided software

Data Entry

Qualification / Education and other Requirements:

• Education- Any Undergraduate (BBA,B.Tech, B,A) etc.

• Excellent verbal and written communication.

• Good Interpersonal skills, numerical and analytical ability.

• Decision making skills.

• Language required: English & Hindi (mandatory),

Kannada/Tamil/Marathi/Telugu (optional)

• Proficient in MS-Office (Excel, Word).

• Should be flexible for day shift- (9-hour of login between 8 AM - 10 PM). •

Comfortable with working 6 days a week and the week off will be on weekday.

Role and Responsibility – Sales Executive

• Identifies business opportunities by identifying prospects.

• Sells products by establishing contact and developing relationships with prospects recommending

solutions.

• Outbound calling on data collected through lead generation activities / secondary data

sources. • Daily follow-ups on older leads and work on new leads.

• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards. • Must be

energetic, well-spoken, and eager to close sales deals and generate revenue for the

organization.

About Training- Training will be provided for initial few days for an employee to understand end to

end process.

About the company:

Betterhalf.ai

Betterhalf is on a mission to help Indians find their match with single click matching. With 1M users and a presence in every city in India, our reach is expansive — and we’re rapidly growing users (50% quarter over quarter).

By mid next year, we'd like to become the 3rd largest player in the matrimony industry in India and make our path to being No.1. There’s never been a more exciting time to be at Betterhalf.

Company funding:

Betterhalf.ai has successfully raised a $3M Pre-Series A round and is backed by Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, Quiet Capital, Kunal Shah and Nobroker founders. Betterhalf is expected to do Series A in 9-12 months.

Your growth:

You’ll experience Series A, B in 24-months and become integrated as a Category Manager

You’ll see a 50-people team becoming a 150-people and will grab the rarest opportunity to be in the room where company’s decisions are planned with founders and marketing leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product teams to plan & develop features and extensions to existing product lines.
• Analyze sales data & research market trends, customer needs to develop key insights & growth opportunities. This workstream may involve ad-hoc RCAs / interventions on escalations.
• Work closely with sell-side & marketing teams to promote & create awareness for product lines.
• Work closely with CM’s  on integrating growth products with new launches as well as working on specific deep-dives for existing brand partners.
• Identify & build growth capabilities & enablers that will drive significant growth on online sales in India. These growth opportunities could span across affordability, third party services, monetization, new customer acquisition, supply growth & onboarding.
  
  

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree, 2+ years in sales industry

Experience in full sales cycle, including deal closing. 

Demonstrated sales success

Strong negotiation skills

Strong communication and presentation skills

CRM experience is preferred

Compensation:

Fixed : 40-50k Per Month

Variable: as per performance

If you believe in Hustling and Getting the Job Done! Come Join us in our ambitious journey to revolutionize the Matrimony Industry.

Short runs at Bourdaina are 3 month fast track programs with clearly defined processes & objectives. Atleast one short run is mandatory before joining us for long haul.

Here's what you'll do day-to-day:

• Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through networking and social media.
• A sales intensive role where you help restaurants, F&B brand, Hotels and FMCG brands by selling Bourdaina products
• Demonstrating and presenting products and services.
• Account management for key clients of the organisation.
• Manage end-to-end client relationships including pitching, negotiation, contracting, billing/invoicing, and payment collection, result tracking and troubleshooting.

Here's what we're looking for:

• People with 0 - 3 years of work experience. Relevant experience in B2B sales will be great!
• Someone who comes with a strong sense of initiative and personal leadership demonstrating the ability to function independently, and comfortable working in a startup environment.
• A person who is articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and has the ability to multitask.